Cybersecurity Threat Modeling and Privacy Risk Assessment in Collaborative Civilian UAV Systems
Ahmed Murtaza1, Abdullah Memon2, Sana Hafeez3, Muzammil Ali2, Ghulam E Mustafa Abro4,*
Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.41, pp. 49-72, 2026, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2026.082765
- 28 August 2026
Abstract Civilian Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) are increasingly deployed in smart-city monitoring, infrastructure inspection, logistics, and emergency response applications. However, their integration with wireless networks, cloud services, and AI-driven analytics significantly expands cybersecurity and privacy risks. Existing studies mainly focus on isolated technical vulnerabilities such as GNSS spoofing, jamming, and communication attacks, while lacking a unified framework that systematically connects cyber threats with quantitative privacy risk assessment. To address this research gap, this study proposes a layered threat-modeling framework for collaborative civilian UAS based on multidimensional attack-surface analysis and STRIDE-oriented threat mapping. In addition, a quantitative More >